Publications

Refereed Publications

Newman, K.R., M.H. Cormier, J.K. Weissel, N.W. Driscoll, M. Kastner, E.A. Solomon, G. Robinson, J.C. Hill, H. Singh, R. Camilli, and R. Eustice, Active methane venting observed at giant seafloor pockmarks along the U.S. mid-Atlantic shelf break, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., in press. [article in pdf]

Seeber, L., C. Mueller, T. Fujiwara, K. Arai, W. Soh, Y.S. Djajadihardja, and M.H. Cormier, Accretion, mass wasting, and portioned strain over the 6 December 2004 Mw9.2 rupture offshore Aceh, Northern Sumatra, Earth Planet. Sci Lett., in press [article in pdf]

Cormier, M.H., L. Seeber, C.M.G. McHugh, A. Polonia, M.N. Çagatay, Ö. Emre, L. Gasperini, N. Görür, G. Bortoluzzi, E. Bonatti, WB.F. Ryan, and K.R. Newman, The North Anatolian fault in the Gulf of Izmit (Turkey): Rapid vertical motion in response to minor bends of a non-vertical continental transform, J. Geophys. Res., doi:1029/2005JB003633, B04102, 2006. [article in pdf]

Seeber, L., M.H. Cormier, C.M.G. McHugh, O. Emre, A. Polonia, and C.C. Sorlien, Subsidence and sedimentation at a transform bend: The Çinarcik Basin and the North Anatolian Fault in the Marmara Sea, Turkey, Geology, 34, 933-936, 2006. [article in pdf]

McHugh, C.M.G., L. Seeber, M.H. Cormier, J. Dutton, M.N. Çagatay, A. Polonia, W.B.F. Ryan, and N. Görür, Submarine earthquake geology along the North Anatolian fault in the Marmara Sea, Turkey: A model for transform basin sedimentation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 248, 661-684, 2006. [article in pdf]

Bell, R.E., R.D. Flood, S. Carbotte, W.B.F. Ryan, C. McHugh, M.H. Cormier, R. Versteeg, H. Bokuniewicz, V.L. Ferrini, J. Thissen, J.W. Ladd, and E.A. Blair, Benthic habitat mapping in the Hudson River estuary, in The Hudson River Estuary, edited by J.S. Levinton and J.R. Waldman, Cambridge University Press, 51-64, 2005.

Carlut, J., M.H. Cormier, D.V. Kent, K.E. Donnelly, and C.H. Langmuir, Timing of volcanism along the northern East Pacific Rise based on paleointensity experiments on basaltic glasses, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B04104, doi:10.1029/2003JB002672, 2004. [article in pdf]

Seeber, L., Ö. Emre, M.H. Cormier, C.C. Sorlien, C.M.G. McHugh, A. Polonia, and the team of the 2001 Urania Cruise in the Marmara Sea, Uplift and Subsidence from Oblique Slip: The Ganos-Marmara Bend of the North Anatolian Transform, Western Turkey, Tectonophysics, 391, 239-258, 2004. [article in pdf]

Polonia, A., L. Gasperini, A. Amorosi, E. Bonatti, G. Bortoluzzi, M.N. Çagatay, L. Capotondi, M.H. Cormier, N. Görür, C.M.G. McHugh, L. Seeber, Holocene slip rate of the North Anatolian Fault beneath the Sea of Marmara, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 227, 411-426, 2004. [article in pdf]

Cormier, M.H., W.B.F. Ryan, A. Shah, W. Jin, A.M. Bradley, and D.R. Yoerger, Waxing and waning volcanism along the East Pacific Rise on a millennium timescale, Geology, 31, 633-636, 2003. [article in pdf]

Shah, A.K., M.H. Cormier, W.B.F. Ryan, W. Jin, J. Carlut, D.R. Yoerger, A.M. Bradley, E. Bergmanis and J. Sinton, Episodic dike swarms inferred from near-bottom magnetic anomaly maps at the southern East Pacific Rise, J. Geophys. Res, 108, doi:10.1029/2001JB000564, 2003. [article in pdf]

Çagatay, M.N., N. Görür, A. Polonia, E. Demirbag, M. Sakinç, M.H. Cormier, L. Capotondi, C.M. McHugh, Ö. Emre, and K. Eris, Sea level changes and depositional environments in the Izmit Gulf, eastern Marmara Sea, during the late glacial-Holocene period, Marine Geology, 202, 159-173, 2003. [article in pdf]

Mège, D., A.C. Cook, E. Garel, Y. Lagabrielle, and M.H. Cormier, Volcanic rifting at Martian grabens, J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2002JE001852 , 2003. [article in pdf]

Baker, E.T. M.H. Cormier, C.H. Langmuir, and K. Zavala, Hydrothermal plumes along segments of contrasting magmatic influence, 15°20’-18°30’ N, East Pacific Rise: influence of axial faulting, Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystem, 2, paper # 2000GC000165, September 24, 2001. [article in pdf]

Lagabrielle, Y., E. Garel, O. Dauteuil, and M.H. Cormier, Extensional faulting and caldera collapse in the axial region of the fast spreading ridges: analog modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 2005-2016, 2001. [article in pdf]

Yoerger, D.R., A.M. Bradley, B.B. Walden, M.H. Cormier, and W.B.F. Ryan, Fine-scale seafloor survey in rugged deep-ocean terrain with an autonomous robot, Proceedings IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics Automation, San Francisco, 1787-1792, 2000.

Lagabrielle, Y. and M.H. Cormier, Formation of large summit troughs along the East Pacific Rise as collapse calderas: An evolutionary model, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 12971-12988, 1999. [article in pdf]

White, S.M., K.C. Macdonald, D.S. Scheirer, and M.H. Cormier, The distribution of isolated volcanoes on the flanks of the East Pacific Rise, 15.3°S-20°S, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 30371-30384, 1998. [article in pdf]

Scheirer, D.S., D.W. Forsyth, M.H. Cormier, and K.C. Macdonald, Shipboard geophysical indications of asymmetry and melt production beneath the East Pacific Rise near the MELT experiment, Science, 280, 1221-1224, 1998. [article in pdf]

Cormier, M.H., D.S. Scheirer, and K.C. Macdonald, Evolution of the East Pacific Rise at 16°-19°S since 5 Ma: Bisection of overlapping spreading centers by new, rapidly migrating propagating ridge segments, Mar. Geophys. Res., 18, 53-84. 1996. [article in pdf]

Scheirer, D.S., K.C. Macdonald, D.W. Forsyth, S.P. Miller, D.J. Wright, M.H. Cormier, and C.M. Weiland, A map series of the southern East Pacific Rise and its flanks, 15°S to 19°S, Mar. Geophys. Res., 18, 1-12, 1996.

Auzende, J.-M., V. Ballu, R. Batiza, D. Bideau, J.-L. Charlou, M.H. Cormier, Y. Fouquet, P. Geistdoerfer, Y. Lagabrielle, J. Sinton, and P. Spadea, Recent tectonic, magmatic, and hydrothermal activity on the East Pacific Rise between 17°S and 19°S: Submersible observations, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 17955-18010, 1996. [article in pdf]

Cormier, M.H., K.C. Macdonald, and D.S. Wilson, A three-dimensional gravity analysis of the East Pacific Rise from 18° to 21°30'S, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 8063-8082, 1995. [article in pdf]

Cormier, M.H., and K.C. Macdonald, East Pacific Rise 18°-19°S: Asymmetric spreading and ridge reorientation by ultra-fast migration of axial discontinuities, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 543-564, 1994. [article in pdf]

Perram, L.J., M.H. Cormier, and K.C. Macdonald, Magnetic and tectonic studies of the dueling propagating spreading centers at 20°40'S on the East Pacific Rise: Evidence for crustal rotation, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 13835-13850, 1993. [article in pdf]

Macdonald, K.C., P.J. Fox, L.J. Perram, M.F. Eisen, R.M. Haymon, S.P. Miller, S.M. Carbotte, M.H. Cormier and A.N. Shor, A new view of the mid-ocean ridge from the behavior of ridge axis discontinuities, Nature, 335, 217-225, 1988. [article in pdf]

White, R.S., R.S. Detrick, M.S. Sinha, and M.H. Cormier, Anomalous seismic structure of oceanic fracture zones, Geophys. J., Roy. Astr. Soc., 79, 779-798, 1984.

Cormier, M.H., R.S. Detrick, and G.M. Purdy, Anomalously thin crust in oceanic fracture zones: New seismic constraints from the Kane fracture zone, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 10249-10266, 1984. [article in pdf]

Detrick, R.S., M.H. Cormier, R.A. Prince, D.W. Forsyth, and E.L. Ambos, Seismic constraints on the crustal structure within the Vema fracture zone, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 10599-10612, 1982. [article in pdf]

Non-refereed Publications

Cormier, M.H., Contribution of multibeam bathymetry to understanding the processes that shape mid-ocean ridges, Proceedings of the GEBCO centennial meeting, Monte Carlo, April 14-16, 2003. [article in pdf]

Polonia, A., M.H. Cormier, M.N. Çagatay, G. Bortoluzzi, E. Bonatti, L. Gasperini, M. Ligi, L. Capotondi, L. Seeber, C.M.G. McHugh, W.B.F. Ryan, N. Görür, Ö. Emre, B. Tok, and the MARMARA2000 and MARMARA2001 scientific parties, Exploring submarine earthquake geology in the Marmara Sea, Eos Transactions AGU, 82 (21), 229 and 235-236, 2002. [article in pdf]

Cormier, M.H., The ultra fast East Pacific Rise: Instability of the plate boundary and implications for accretionary processes, in Mid-Ocean Ridges: Dynamics of Processes Associated with Accretion of New Ocean Crust, ed. J.R. Cann, H. Elderfield, A. Laughton, 125-151, Cambridge University Press, 1999. (also published in the Phil. Trans. Royal Society of London, A, 355, 341-367, 1997) [article in pdf]

Yoerger, D.R., A.M. Bradley, M.H. Cormier, W.B.F. Ryan, and B.B. Walden, High resolution mapping of a fast spreading mid ocean ridge with the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, Proceedings 11th UUST conf., Durham, NH, 1999.

Sinton, J., E. Bergmanis, R. Batiza, K. Rubin, T.K.P. Gregg, K. Grönvold, S. White, K. Macdonald, C. Van Dover, M.H. Cormier, W.B.F. Ryan, M. Aigner-Torres, L. Popels, E. Boyle, A. Shah, and W. Jin, Volcanological investigations at superfast spreading: Results from R/V Atlantis cruise 3-31, RIDGE Events, 10 (1), 17-23, 1999.

Cormier, M.H., D.S. Scheirer, K.C. Macdonald, S.M. White, R.M. Haymon, and the Sojourn 1 Scientific Party, Sojourn, leg 1: detailed study of the asymmetries about the East Pacific Rise, 15°30'-20°S, RIDGE Events, 8, No. 2, 1-5, 1997.

Geistdoerfer, P., J.-M. Auzende, R. Batiza, D. Bideau, M.H. Cormier, Y. Fouquet, Y. Lagabrielle, J. Sinton, and P. Spadea, Hydrothermalisme et communautés animales associées sur la dorsale du Pacifique oriental entre 17°S et 19°S (campagne Naudur, décembre 1993), Comptes Rendus Academ. Sci. Paris, 320 (II), 47-54, 1995.

Auzende, J.-M., J. Sinton, V. Ballu, R. Batiza, D. Bideau, M.H. Cormier, Y. Fouquet, P. Geistdoerfer, Y. Lagabrielle, and P. Spadea, NAUDUR explorers discover recent volcanic activity along the East Pacific Rise, EOS Trans., A.G.U., 75, 601 and 604-605, 1994.

Auzende, J.-M., V. Ballu, R. Batiza, D. Bideau, M.H. Cormier, Y. Fouquet, P. Geistdoerfer, Y. Lagabrielle, J. Sinton, and P. Spadea, Activité magmatique, tectonique et hydrothermale actuelle sur la dorsale Est Pacifique entre 17° et 19°S (campagne NAUDUR), Comptes Rendus Academ. Sci. Paris, 319 (II), 811-818, 1994.

Fouquet, Y., J.-M. Auzende, V. Ballu, R. Batiza, D. Bideau, M.-H. Cormier, P. Geistdoerfer, Y. Lagabrielle, J. Sinton, and P. Spadea, Variabilités des manifestations hydrothermales actuelles le long d'une dorsale ultra-rapide: Exemple de la dorsale Est Pacifique entre 17° et 19°S (campagne NAUDUR), Comptes Rendus Academ. Sci. Paris, 319 (II), 1399-1406, 1994.

Auzende, J.M., V. Ballu, R. Batiza, D. Bideau, M.H. Cormier, Y. Fouquet, P. Geistdoerfer, Y. Lagabrielle, J. Sinton, P. Spadea, Observations of present-day activity at super-fast spreading: Volcanic, hydrothermal and tectonic studies of the EPR 17°-19°S, RIDGE Events, 5(1), 1994.

Deploying a bottom pressure recorder